A hypothetical question for anyone who supports the use of drones/summary executions

[jeff47]

111. Today isn't 1953.

And unless you've got a time machine in your pocket, we can't go back and undo our moronic middle eastern policy that got us to where we are today.

So, today, what do we do?

Do nothing? Ok, that means we will be attacked. Has been the result of doing nothing every time we've tried it so far. So how do you propose we ameliorate the problems from that? You've got a significant loss of life from the attack itself, but much more importantly you also have to deal with the reaction of a frightened populous and what they'll allow the government to do. And if terrorists do something spectacular, the Patriot act is gonna look positively Jeffersonian compared to what happens.

So, we'll need your plan for how we get the US public to not abandon civil liberties in return for supposed security. And after our reaction to 9/11 I'm not sure that's possible, so I'm very interested in your plan.

We could also go larger, with invasions or spec ops attacks. But I don't think that's the direction you want to go.

Or we go with drone strikes, which appear to be disrupting terrorist groups and killing fewer people than either an invasion or our over-reaction to another attack.

You should stop pretending that I like the drone strike option. I don't. I am well aware that drone strikes are bad. But I don't like the other options more. That's why I'm asking for an alternative that won't kill innocents, is actually possible, and won't result in us liberals being thrown into camps as enemies of the state.